BRISSELOT (BRYSELOT, BRINELOTUS, BRISSELOTTO, BRISELOTTO), JEAN

BRISSELOT (BRYSELOT, BRINELOTUS, BRISSELOTTO, BRISELOTTO), JEAN. - A Carmelite of the Ancient Observance, born at Valenciennes, where he took the religious habit; he earned his doctorate in theology at Paris (1502), then became a professor at the Sorbonne and prior of the Valenciennes convent. Appointed titular bishop of Beirut and auxiliary of Cambrai (4 Apr. 1505), he administered that diocese until 1517, when he became confessor to Charles V and was named archbishop of Oristano (Sardinia), a see he never reached. Celebrated for his vast learning, he was called by Erasmus “one of the lights of the Church.” He resigned the archbishopric (16 Apr. 1520) and died in the abbey of Hautmont on 11 Sept. 1520. He left some twenty manuscript works, including one on *Psaltos poenitentiales*.